Problem with db data

[mediabob]

Hi, I am working on a date system like facebook where instead of a date and time something was posted it shows like, 45 minutes ago, or 3 hours ago... that sort of thing and I have it working except for one small issue. To start off I have

 

function post_time ($session_time) {
$db_date = $row_post_list['pdate'];

$calc_time = time() - $db_date;

 

the $db_date should be date/time as pulled from the database, but it does not seem to work. if I replace the  $row_post_list['pdate'] with an actual date/time like this:

 

 

function post_time ($session_time) {
$db_date = 1266048067;

$calc_time = time() - $db_date;

 

The whole thing works flawlessly, so I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. All the rest of the data on the page that comes from the db works great, it's just pulling that one thing that is throwing a wrench in.

[sasa]

variable $row_post_list is NOT setup in function

you must past it via functions parameters or make it global

[mediabob]

that was dumb... thanks